Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past?… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
